David Deida

David Deida is an author, researcher, and teacher with books on spiritual-sexual growth, spiritual practice, non-dual sexuality, and sociocultural evolution. He has published ten books in over 25 languages and has traveled internationally presenting his work.

His book "The Way of the Superior Man" was and continues to be a huge hit and bestseller amongst men studying dating advice.

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David received the 1974 National Writing Award for writing his privately distributed books. While researching medicine and consciousness as an undergraduate student, he began practicing and teaching hatha yoga, tai chi chuan, and meditation.

In 1982, he graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in Theoretical Psychobiology and was granted a Fellowship at the Laboratory for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of California Medical School, San Diego. He was awarded the Regents Fellowship at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983. In addition to his research, David also taught psychobiology, neurophysiology, evolutionary psychology, and hatha yoga. David spent over 15 years practicing and developing the yoga of intimate relational communion.

Deida advanced to Ph.D. candidacy and was eventually awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship in 1988 by the French government for thesis on the autopoietic computer simulation of human immune and nervous systems. He holds a Masters degree in biology from the University of California.

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David has developed and teaches a non-sectarian training program for spiritual practice, utilizing an integral approach to non-dual sexuality.

In 1995 and 1997 respectively, he published his first two published books, Intimate Communion and It’s A Guy Thing, introducing some of his concepts such as his model of psycho-sexual development and an understanding of non-gender-based masculine and feminine identities in Western culture.

He went on to publish books such as:

- The Way of the Superior Man (1997, 2004), summarizing his view of men’s socio-cultural evolution
- Waiting to Love: Rude Essays on Life After Spirituality (2001), a more non-dual approach to life, love, and intimacy.
- Dear Lover (2002, 2005), focusing on women’s third-stage practices involving exercises of compassion and devotion
- Finding God Through Sex (2002, 2005), practices for dissolving fear and self-boundaries while sustaining self-integrity
- The Enlightened Sex Manual: Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover (2004), an introductory program for sexual yoga in the book
- Naked Buddhism: 39 ways to free your heart and awaken to now (2002)

Some of David’s workshop topics include:

- What do women reveal about their desire to be ravished in love?
- How do you transform emotional and sexual wounds into gifts?
- Why do many men resist marriage even when they are totally in love?
- Why are the five biggest turn-ons for women different than those for men?
- How does one cultivate "masculine presence" and why is it such a gift in intimacy?
- What are the spiritual prerequisites for experiencing the ultimate sexual embrace?
- Why is feminine energy extremely attractive, yet mistrusted by both men and women?
- What must you risk in order to experience deep sexual union and emotional communion?
- Why do most couples decide to stay in the "safe zone" of sexuality and spirituality, and what are they missing?

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